“My take is she's found a way to thin the ranks, as the company is not doing all so well,” Wolters said. “We'll see how this plays out and if other CEOs will follow. I would not be surprised.”

Bendure said Yahoo may have had abuse of the policy or problems with telecommunications.

“Most of my business clients have not succeeded at telecommuting for these reasons,” Bendure said. “There's often resentment by office workers leading to other conflicts and breakdown in relationships and team.”

“Yahoo may have difficulty recruiting younger workers, and especially the creative ones that Yahoo needs,” Sherry said. “Creative workers don't always follow an 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. routine, nor do they necessarily like the structure and confines of an office environment.”

This, er, older telecommuting business writer agrees. I heard Monday's news at work, while on an elliptical machine at the YMCA, and gathered feedback Tuesday from home, including when my 11-year-old daughter got off the bus, walked in and pronounced:

“I yelled bloody murder in Social Studies today.”

“Why?” I asked.

“Jasmine came up from behind me.”

Me: “Did you get in trouble with the teacher?”

She: “No.”

It's the work/life balance, i.e., life's small pleasures, that I, at least, demand.

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